Ramachandra Kaviraja

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Hare Krishna,

 

PAMHO, AGTSP

 

As i am not qualified to glorify the pastimes of the

Lord, it is only through your mercy I am able to copy

from CC pastimes of the associates of Lord Sri Krishna

Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Kindly glorify the pastimes of

Ramachandra Kaviraja on his disappearnce day on 8th

Jan.

 

Your servant in mission of Srila Prabhupada

 

Nanda Gopal Dasa

 

 

Adi 11 TEXT 51

 

kamsari sena, ramasena, ramacandra kaviraja

govinda, sriranga, mukunda, tina kaviraja

SYNONYMS

kamsari sena-Kamsari Sena; ramasena-Ramasena;

ramacandra kaviraja-Ramacandra Kaviraja;

govinda-Govinda; sriranga-Sriranga; mukunda-Mukunda;

tina kaviraja-all three are Kavirajas, or physicians.

TRANSLATION

The fifty-eighth great devotee of Lord Nityananda

Prabhu was Kamsari Sena, the fifty-ninth was Ramasena,

the sixtieth was Ramacandra Kaviraja, and the

sixty-first, sixty-second and sixty-third were

Govinda, Sriranga and Mukunda, who were all

physicians.

PURPORT

Sri Ramacandra Kaviraja, the son of Khandavasi

Ciranjiva and Sunanda, was a disciple of Srinivasa

Acarya and the most intimate friend of Narottama dasa

Thakura, who prayed several times for his association.

His youngest brother was Govinda Kaviraja. Srila Jiva

Gosvami very much appreciated Sri Ramacandra

Kaviraja's great devotion to Lord Krsna and therefore

gave him the title Kaviraja. Sri Ramacandra Kaviraja,

who was perpetually disinterested in family life,

greatly assisted in the preaching work of Srinivasa

Acarya and Narottama dasa Thakura. He resided at first

in Srikhanda but later in the village of

Kumara-nagara, on the bank of the Ganges.

Govinda Kaviraja was the brother of Ramacandra

Kaviraja and youngest son of Ciranjiva of Srikhanda.

Although at first a sakta, or worshiper of goddess

Durga, he was later initiated by Srinivasa Acarya

Prabhu. Govinda Kaviraja also resided first in

Srikhanda and then in Kumara-nagara, but later he

moved to the village known as Teliya Budhari, on the

southern bank of the river Padma. Since Govinda

Kaviraja, the author of two books, Sangita-madhava and

Gitamrta, was a great Vaisnava kavi, or poet, Srila

Jiva Gosvami gave him the title Kaviraja. He is

described in the Bhakti-ratnakara (Ninth Wave).

Kamsari Sena was formerly Ratnavali in Vraja, as

described in the Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika (194 and 200).